This book was reviewed for Lola’s Blog Tours The Daydreamer Detective Braves the Winter is the second of Pajonas’ Miso Cozy Mystery series. It has only been a handful of weeks since Mei’s first harrowing adventure, working to solve the murder of her best friend’s father. Those events strained her relationship with Akiko, but […]
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Book Review: The Daydreamer Detective by SJ Pajonas
This book was reviewed for Lola’s Blog Tours The Daydreamer Detective, by SJ Pajonas, is the first in the Miso Cozy Mystery Series. This was a great read! Much as I love mystery fiction a lá Sherlock Holmes, the appeal of cozy mysteries oft escapes me. Not so with this little gem! Mei, […]
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Book Review: The Spiritglass Charade by Colleen Gleason
I purchased a copy of this book for my own enjoyment, and with no expectation of a review. The Spiritglass Charade is the second book of Colleen Gleason’s Stoker and Holmes series, featuring the daughter of Mycroft Holmes, and the sister of Bram Stoker. This adventure has the duo looking into a case of […]
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Book Review- Axtelera Ray Preview by MJ Gallagher
I received a copy of this preview in exchange for a fair and honest review. Axtelera Ray, written by MJ Gallagher and created by Alroy Jovi Prateek, grabs your attention right from the start, and doesn’t let go. Such a tease, too, since it’s just a preview. I want the whole book! It is the […]
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Book Review- Sunborn Rising by Aaron Safronoff
This book was reviewed via Lola’s Blog Tours. Safronoff’s Sunborn Rising is a richly tailored, beautifully woven tale of the bond between friends, the spirit of adventure, and the love of family. It is a coming of age for one young Listlespur, and her two companions as they are drawn into a journey unlike […]
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Book Review- Risuko by David Kudler
This book was reviewed via Netgalley Kudler’s Risuko is an enthralling tale of feudal Japan. Kano Murasaki, known as Risuko, has been sold into a half-slavery to Lady Chiyome, who runs Mochizuki, training shrine maidens called miko. But miko aren’t the only things she trains. No, Chiyome trains kunoichi, or ‘very special women’. It’ll […]
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Book Review- Playful Song Called Beautiful
This book was reviewed for University of Iowa Press via Netgalley Blair’s Playful Song Called Beautiful is certainly one of the more unusual poetry collections I’ve read. This collection was the winner of the Iowa Poetry Contest. These poems are rich with unique symbolism. That sometimes backfires though, when symbolism is so unique to […]
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Book Review- Map of Bones by Francesca Haig
This book was reviewed for the San Francisco Book Review Map of Bones is the second in Haig’s Fire Sermon series. The resistance has scattered, victim to Council predations. Zoe, Piper, and Cass make their convoluted way back to resistance leadership, through a maze of obstacles and diversions. Along the way, they collect […]
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Book Review- Madame Pele, curated by Rick Carroll
My sister purchased this book on a trip to Hawai’i and I borrowed it to read. Madame Pele is a collection of stories, curated by Rick Carroll, that tell of encounters with the fiery goddess of the Hawaiian isles. Some encounters are benign, some are helpful, some akin to tales of phantom hitchhikers. Then […]
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Book Review- Jekyll Island Chronicles (graphic novel)
This book was reviewed via Netgalley The Jekyll Island Chronicles by Nedvidek, Cromwell, and Lowe tells the behind the scenes story of an alternate history in which the titans of industry and science come together to do far more than craft the Federal Reserve. Meeting on Jekyll Island, off the coast of Georgia, […]
